Here's the thing.... Liking/loving the Fallout universe and liking FO:BOS are two mutually exclusive things. That's like saying you loved your dead grandmother and then pissing all over her grave.
According to hearsay, which may or may not be accurate, Max is suppose to die fairly early on in the movie, with his son or somesuch taking over the lead role. Again, that's just hearsay.
I can run Wasteland under XP without the use of any slowdown programs. Of course, I've only played for about two minutes, so combat or something might be super fast...